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The cook could not get along with Jenny. Jenny gave notice and acted upon it promptly, deaf to remonstrance, because her young man was going to get her a place as waitress so she wouldn't "have to lower herself" doing housework. The laundress was ill with influenza and the substitute laundress did not wash the baby's clothes clean. That was why Mrs. Warner, coming into her daughter's house one morning in January, found Cecily herself in the laundry bending over a tub of diapers. Cecily was disheveled and a little defiant at her mother's protest.
"I don't see what else there is to do. If I can't get help, the children have to have clean clothes, don't they?"